Authors by Name: W
George Wald (2)
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
284 thoughts about war
Margaret Walker (3)
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
249 views about aging
Henry A. Wallace (3)
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
249 more views about aging
Alfred Russel Wallace (3)
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
323 quotes about death
Hugh Walpole (2)
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
345 other quotes about happiness
An Wang (3)
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
198 wisdom & wit about business
Mary Augusta Ward (3)
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
180 wisdom & wit about marriage
William Arthur Ward (14)
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
58 thoughts about anger
Andy Warhol (18)
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
425 more views regarding art
Charles Dudley Warner (5)
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
29 more quotes relating to gardening
Earl Warren (6)
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
210 wisdom & wit about education
George Washington (30)
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
233 other quotes about being alone
Martha Washington (2)
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
174 quotes regarding experience
Booker T. Washington (10)
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
233 views regarding being alone
Ethel Waters (4)
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
139 more quotes relating to intelligence
Thomas J. Watson (6)
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
198 views relating to business
Isaac Watts (3)
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
175 views about change
Alan Watts (16)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
44 quotes about attitudes
Evelyn Waugh (3)
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
233 other quotes about being alone
John Wayne (4)
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
161 wisdom & wit about courage
John Webster (3)
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
233 other wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Simone Weil (25)
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
425 views relating to art
Adam Weishaupt (2)
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
184 thoughts about government
Lawrence Welk (9)
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
198 quotes regarding business
Orson Welles (15)
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
249 other quotes about aging
Rebecca West (11)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
425 other quotes relating to art
Mae West (31)
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
425 other wisdom & wit relating to art
Edith Wharton (6)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
249 quotes about aging
Richard Whately (5)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
428 more quotes about being good
Benjamin Whichcote (2)
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
240 more views relating to faith
Ellen G. White (3)
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
233 thoughts regarding being alone
William Allen White (3)
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
135 quotes about learning
Theodore White (5)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
41 other thoughts about communication
E. B. White (19)
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
249 other quotes about aging
George Whitefield (5)
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
15 other wisdom & wit regarding amazing
Alfred North Whitehead (19)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
425 other views relating to art
Walt Whitman (30)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
425 sayings regarding art
John Greenleaf Whittier (7)
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
218 quotes about beauty
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (6)
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
425 quotes about art
Oscar Wilde (100)
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
249 sayings about aging
Laura Ingalls Wilder (2)
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
364 quotes about best
Thornton Wilder (12)
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
233 more thoughts about being alone
Tennessee Williams (17)
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
233 thoughts about being alone
William John Wills (2)
We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.
84 quotes about morning
Edmund Wilson (2)
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
178 more views about imagination
Tom Wilson (5)
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
249 sayings relating to aging
Flip Wilson (7)
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
233 sayings about being alone
Harold Wilson (3)
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
175 more quotes about change
Samuel Wilson (3)
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
25 other quotes about environmental
Woodrow Wilson (19)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
175 other quotes regarding change
Walter Winchell (3)
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
425 more sayings regarding art
P. G. Wodehouse (3)
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
364 quotes regarding best
Mary Wollstonecraft (6)
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
Natalie Wood (4)
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
233 sayings about being alone
George Edward Woodberry (2)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
142 views relating to failure
Victoria Woodhull (3)
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
175 other wisdom & wit relating to change
Carter G. Woodson (6)
The mere imparting of information is not education.
210 quotes about education
Virginia Woolf (30)
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
249 more quotes regarding aging
William Wordsworth (21)
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
249 quotes about aging
Frank Lloyd Wright (26)
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
249 views regarding aging
Wilbur Wright (2)
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
262 quotes about knowledge
Frances Wright (5)
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
43 quotes about equality
Orville Wright (2)
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
35 thoughts regarding design
William Wycherley (3)
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
218 other quotes about beauty
Elinor Wylie (2)
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
278 quotes about fear
Tammy Wynette (2)
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
495 thoughts about love